Senior Security Research Engineer

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world! **Responsibilities**:  * Research, analyze, and assess attack surface and vulnerability data  * Develop tailored and actionable mitigation strategies and plans to address vulnerability risk  * Work with new and emerging vulnerability data to identify potential attack paths in critical systems.  * Document, develop and present mitigation strategies in web applications, databases, standalone applications, etc.  * Analyze the root cause of vulnerabilities and support the prioritization of mitigations based on risk and return on mitigation  * Provide mitigation strategies that prioritize risk against level of effort for multiple systems or organizations  * Catalog mitigation advice, challenges, and trends and patterns  * Patch diffing and reverse engineering with tools such as Ghidra, IDA, etc.   * Provide subject matter expertise on tailored mitigations to resolve and remediate vulnerabilities on targeted technologies  * Work in fast-paced startup like environment with shifting priorities to handle and maintain balance with multiple stakeholders.  * Conduct research to assess and create software patches and configuration changes to be applied to varied software, middleware and hardware  * Provide assessment including security, system, and business impact of vulnerabilities  * Must be able to think ahead to avoid business outages based on the lab results  * Analyze vulnerability data and support management of identified vulnerabilities, including tracking, remediation, and reporting  **Desired Skills**:  * Excellent understanding of network, system and application security  * Experience with IDA Pro, Ghidra, or similar binary analysis tool  * Knowledge of various vulnerability scanning solutions is a plus  * Excellent written and verbal communication  * Graduate with preferable 4 years degree or at least 3-year degree with computer science and information technology background  * Secure architecture designs and use of detection/protection mechanisms (e.g., firewalls, IDS/IPS, full-packet capture technologies) to mitigate risk  * A solid understanding of industry best practices for Patch Management   * Specific demonstrated experience mapping business processes and comparing those processes to industry best practices  * Background around using or understanding of security tools would be plus  * Solid understanding of the security implications of a patch on web applications, Windows, Linux, Mac OS operating systems  * Thorough testing of patches in a non-production environment   * Have working knowledge of basic operation systems commands and tooling - Windows, Linux, Mac OS  * Should have very good communication and articulation skills  * Ability and ready to learn new technology and should be a good team player  **What you get to do**:  Work within Threat Research, detection and response teams and analysts to define the priority, design the solution, and contribute to build framework for patching vulnerabilities